This morning, my coffee over facebook was disturbed by this little article from CNS News. While it certainly feels like a knife in the gut for a Christian to hear a person claiming to represent Christ say that it is a woman's God-given right to murder her child, it is not really surprising. I don't hear it a lot but since Scripture has been twisted to support so many other false teachings, it should be expected that people can bend the Word of God to justify infanticide.
While I'm never truly surprised about this sort of thing I am always perplexed. Why? Why do people feel the need to so utterly convolute the Word of God in order to excuse their immoral behavior? I have heard people try to use Scripture to excuse everything from extra-marital affairs to child abuse. Wouldn't it be simpler, though, if those people, who so want to disobey God, were just to leave the Church? It would sure make their Sunday's easier. They could sleep in, mow the lawn, watch the game, commit any number of transgressions, and be happier for it. Why do they need to hear from the pulpit the lie that God condones their lifestyle choices?
I have no answer so if you do feel free to let me know. As for this debacle, Priests for Life has a page that answers all the "Scriptural" arguments for abortion.
(Disclaimer: I am Protestant, not Catholic, but trying to find scholarly evangelical works on abortion or medical ethics is like trying to find a Blue Dog Democrat...I don't think they exist.)
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Warning: Idiot With Teleprompter
I was out, as usual, this evening so I was not fortunate enough to be able to watch our esteemed (though by whom I don't care to know) President bore, er, I mean, give a speech to our West Point cadets. I did, however, find the transcript online. I tried to read it, I really did. But I was supposed to be chaperoning for a show and it's difficult to chaperone and sleep at the same time. As I read through the first of 10 pages I found myself asking, "What...is he saying?" I thought, perhaps I'm just very exhausted after a day of cleaning up puke from my 2yo sickling. Maybe it does make sense, though, again, to whom I don't care to know.
Fortunately, Pat Dollard hit it on the head with this quote from his Twitter: "Gibberish. This is all gibberish about a world he wishes were, instead of the world that is." This is exactly the problem with PrezO, and all the other Liberals trying to ruin this country. I have nothing against idealism, but if it is not rooted in reality it turns into something ugly, like Socialism.
At any rate, Obama offers more troops, but promises a pull out date. I am of two minds regarding this. 1) Pull out dates are a nice thing to give to the mothers but they have no basis in reality (cf We'll be home by Christmas hope after D-Day). 2) Obama is just stupid enough to stand by it regardless of the situation. After watching the last year's worth of politicking unfold like the storyline of a bad reality show, I will go with 2.
Essentially, then, he has just told our enemies, the people who want to see us dead, that all they need to do is hold out until 2011, and victory will be theirs. What will that victory look like? What are the consequences to our men and women doing the fighting, of unequivocally stating, "We surrender, but not just yet?"
I suppose this is a situation where Obama wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to look like he's doing something in Afghanistan because his poll numbers are so bad and someone has mentioned to him that Americans like military stuff. On the other hand, he doesn't really want to win because that would make America look good and nothing could be more intolerable. By pandering to both sides, he makes himself look like a complete idiot. No longer a very difficult thing for the man to do, but this time he did it WITH the teleprompter running.
Fortunately, Pat Dollard hit it on the head with this quote from his Twitter: "Gibberish. This is all gibberish about a world he wishes were, instead of the world that is." This is exactly the problem with PrezO, and all the other Liberals trying to ruin this country. I have nothing against idealism, but if it is not rooted in reality it turns into something ugly, like Socialism.
At any rate, Obama offers more troops, but promises a pull out date. I am of two minds regarding this. 1) Pull out dates are a nice thing to give to the mothers but they have no basis in reality (cf We'll be home by Christmas hope after D-Day). 2) Obama is just stupid enough to stand by it regardless of the situation. After watching the last year's worth of politicking unfold like the storyline of a bad reality show, I will go with 2.
Essentially, then, he has just told our enemies, the people who want to see us dead, that all they need to do is hold out until 2011, and victory will be theirs. What will that victory look like? What are the consequences to our men and women doing the fighting, of unequivocally stating, "We surrender, but not just yet?"
I suppose this is a situation where Obama wants to have his cake and eat it too. He wants to look like he's doing something in Afghanistan because his poll numbers are so bad and someone has mentioned to him that Americans like military stuff. On the other hand, he doesn't really want to win because that would make America look good and nothing could be more intolerable. By pandering to both sides, he makes himself look like a complete idiot. No longer a very difficult thing for the man to do, but this time he did it WITH the teleprompter running.
Monday, November 30, 2009
So, the Hokey-Pokey really *is* what it's all about.
I had another topic for my first blog entry but that will have to wait since I just read about a case in New Hampshire where a judge ordered a homeschooled child into the government school.
Now, I am one of those atypical (these days) religious homeschoolers who feel that people should decide for their own families how to educate their children. God's word is silent on the exact location of education, though not on the religious and moral upbringing. If a family believes that their child can get a good education at their local public school or at a private school of their choice, and is willing to do the extra work to adequately train their child "in the way he should go," I cannot see where they are breaking any commandments.
However, this case highlights something that homeschoolers (both left and right) have argued for decades, namely, public school is not really about education, it's about indoctrination. If the judge truly believed that the main purpose of learning was to grasp the ABCs and 123s, so-to-speak, this case wouldn't have gone anywhere. He would have looked at the girl's scores, seen she was doing exceedingly well academically, maybe even given the mother a nice pat on the back, we'd never have heard of it, and I'd have been able to publish my other blog entry. But that's not what happened. Despite how well the child is doing she has been ordered into the government school system simply to be exposed to other ideas.
Only one with his feet planted firmly in the sophistry of the public schools could be blind enough not to see this for what it is: forced re-education.
Now, I am one of those atypical (these days) religious homeschoolers who feel that people should decide for their own families how to educate their children. God's word is silent on the exact location of education, though not on the religious and moral upbringing. If a family believes that their child can get a good education at their local public school or at a private school of their choice, and is willing to do the extra work to adequately train their child "in the way he should go," I cannot see where they are breaking any commandments.
However, this case highlights something that homeschoolers (both left and right) have argued for decades, namely, public school is not really about education, it's about indoctrination. If the judge truly believed that the main purpose of learning was to grasp the ABCs and 123s, so-to-speak, this case wouldn't have gone anywhere. He would have looked at the girl's scores, seen she was doing exceedingly well academically, maybe even given the mother a nice pat on the back, we'd never have heard of it, and I'd have been able to publish my other blog entry. But that's not what happened. Despite how well the child is doing she has been ordered into the government school system simply to be exposed to other ideas.
Only one with his feet planted firmly in the sophistry of the public schools could be blind enough not to see this for what it is: forced re-education.
Just Another Freakin' Blog
Why am I here? There are a million blogs just like this one out in cyber-space. So why am I writing?
Mostly this is just a place to work out thoughts that cannot be turned into the pithy one-liners I've become famous for. Here I can ruminate all I need, and show off my incredible thesaurus skills.
Now, will I write anything? Not so regular as those that are tops. I have this odd thing called a life. Not that other bloggers don't. They've just incorporated blogging into their lives. I have never been able to find a way to do this. It might be those five pesky kids I have underfoot night and day. It might be that rebellious act of homeschooling said five pesky kids. It might be the extra-curricular activities of said five pesky kids that keeps me out and about all afternoon and evening.
Hmmm...no, I must be honest. It is not my children, it is my interest in reading and contemplating what others have taken the time to set forth at their own blogs and websites. So, in that spirit, I will contemplate the news of the day, my take on the snowball-headed-for-hell policies that the current administration desires to cram down our throats, Islamophobia-phobia, the Arts, flair on facebook and my latest troubles with TweetDeck--which I use, essentially, to stalk the guys at Red Eye.
So, please, if you desire to follow, sit back, relax, and lower your expectations exponentially.
Mostly this is just a place to work out thoughts that cannot be turned into the pithy one-liners I've become famous for. Here I can ruminate all I need, and show off my incredible thesaurus skills.
Now, will I write anything? Not so regular as those that are tops. I have this odd thing called a life. Not that other bloggers don't. They've just incorporated blogging into their lives. I have never been able to find a way to do this. It might be those five pesky kids I have underfoot night and day. It might be that rebellious act of homeschooling said five pesky kids. It might be the extra-curricular activities of said five pesky kids that keeps me out and about all afternoon and evening.
Hmmm...no, I must be honest. It is not my children, it is my interest in reading and contemplating what others have taken the time to set forth at their own blogs and websites. So, in that spirit, I will contemplate the news of the day, my take on the snowball-headed-for-hell policies that the current administration desires to cram down our throats, Islamophobia-phobia, the Arts, flair on facebook and my latest troubles with TweetDeck--which I use, essentially, to stalk the guys at Red Eye.
So, please, if you desire to follow, sit back, relax, and lower your expectations exponentially.
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